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Ontario Scrapbook Hansard, 20 Mar 1928, p. 3

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_._____--.._fl--_N » (}v 6,34,6%1, r\a.\rc\n 2 0 %h4 ' The Prime Minister explained that the $300,000 glnnt to the University of zWeatem tario was $50,000 in advance l of what had been given in the past. Western, said the Premier, had under-- taken to consolidate its debt, to issue debentures, and to raise money to estab-- lish a foundation which would put it on its own feet, and make Government aid in future unnecessary. To Lend Helping Hand. But, he said, in view of the spirit with I wl}lch }Vestexirtx had gone lntot ll}ts cam-- } &4 ih;. baign for self--maintenance, the Gov-- 'Deprecates "No Contribu @rnment was prepared to lend & hclp. | Ant?? i ng hand until the foundation was firm-- \_tion" Attitude of Toronto ly established. | In the very near future, A e predicted, the university would be ' Toward U' Of T able to look after herself. witgeesstig en ieiiioritamiy Further discussion of university esti-- « mates led Mr. Ferguson to point out SUPPLEMENTARIES P A SS that of the 5.200 students enrolled at the University of Toronto the great seenamanuaegsemns rémjority cz;rmc frodeoron!tlo and the is resterday ounty of York. And yet, he said, the The Onlario Legislature yester a',, City of Toronto contributed nothing to put its O.K. on supplementary estimates the university. "All we get," he said. | totalling approximately $5,000,000. In cynically, "is police and fire protection." 12M spparunenial vorgs save thew ofl lafeqments 1of the estatnientment ut ' save 108¢ 0O 3 2 gltlxhggpav;tox?lggt:ndvorgisghwa;s, Provin-- higher training in the high schools and cial Secretary's, Agriculture, and a Collegiate institutes Education, he sub-- | "miscellaneous" vote of $67,945. mitted, had to be carried to the people.' Endorsation of the program, as far 'I:he;'s was ? li'mxt as to how far they as it went yesterday, was comparative-- Would go after it, rogatioqs regarding Hy dror C:pen?:a Hon. William Finlayson, Minister of 3\:::: f';:r'nc gpeoin::': s;'erglg'&lsf(?; (;ui'eng%hbv Lands and Forests, in speaking of the| ] for $2,300 salary voted to the Collector of propouncemem n fulure (plans 0 Provincial Land Tax, said there was power development. great arrears of summer cottage land in Commends Western. unorga{nized territory, fl;'om which, up alum t * to a few years ago, the Government The Prime Minister also spoke @t: q. nothing in the way of revenue. some length on university grants, es-- Last year some $75,000 had been paid pecially commending in this connection ; )/' ,y ) Treasury from this source, and the spirit behind the campaign Of the noy; vear he fancied. the amount would University of Westerp Ontario, London, be more than doubled. to establish foundation and do its own On a $90,000 vote for "reforestation" financing in future and rather GeDIC~ purposes, Mr. Finlayson expressed the cating the "no contribution" Aititud? yjew that the plan of action in South-- of the City of Toronto with regard t0 western Ontario and the more settled the maintenmnance of the U{\i;'cr51§yiof nc Ciemreamemumes aavincancmmmntrararee Toronto. Barring these points Of iNn-- | rommunities was rO'» . terrogation, the cstimates had "casy § favorably. PYO'zressing . very sailing." ne e cmmemnamacs Attorney--General Price told the House that the $10,000 set down for operation of his new "Security Frauds Prevention Act," was more or less guess-- work, but that he would have more to say concerning its administration when the measure came be(ore the House for second reading this after-- noon. The $10,000 vote, he said, was merely to set the machinery of the leg-- islation in motion. A $3,600 to Inspector. Interrogation _ by E. Blake Miller s (Liberal, East Elgin) of a $3,600 vote . * s for "Salary of Associate Principal," at-; the English--French Training School,| Sturgeon Falls, drew from Premter; Ferguson tne admission that Inspector' Lapensee, who was dismissed from the: post of Bilingual Inspector in Essex | County, was the man to whom this salary was to go. f R '"His temperament," said Mr. Fergu-- son, "didn't, perhaps, fit him for the work of an Inspector. We transferred him back to the teaching branch, and, 'needing a man at Sturgeon Falls, we put him there." _

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